Gutters

One of the gutters running up Newport Street, towards the church from High Street. A sort of junior version of the stone gutters you get in some of the streets in the centre of Cambridge. Which I remember as having been invented, hundreds of years ago, by Mayor Hobson, but google, for once, is silent on this point.

Later: memory slightly defective. Mayor Hobson was involved in the construction of the stone gutters that I remember in Cambridge, but they were not to do with the disposal of waste water, rather with the supply of fresh water. See reference 1. With thanks to a Romsey Town correspondent for the correction.

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_Conduit.

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